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Pale. The hermitage of Santa Maria Giacobbe, built around 1200 to worship ‘Maria Jacobi’, one of the pious women supposed to have been present at the cucifixion of Christ. The small church was restored in 1712 and is decorated with frescoes. The death of the Virgin, attributed to Cola di Petrucciolo, a very well known painter and a follower of Giotto.

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Pale. The hermitage of Santa Maria Giacobbe, built around 1200 to worship ‘Maria Jacobi’, one of the pious women supposed to have been present at the cucifixion of Christ. The small church was restored in 1712 and is decorated with frescoes. The death of the Virgin, attributed to Cola di Petrucciolo, a very well known painter and a follower of Giotto.